He Had a Go
It was a cool spring evening in Melbourne, Australia. I drove to my boxing gym for aFriday night training session. After _______ up, I started training. Then I noticed a tall andslim young man walking through the doors. There was something about him that caught my_____.
Before long, I realized that he might have a mental illness. Having volunteered for mentalillness support groups, I really ______ his problems when I looked at him.
He paid for the session, put on a pair of gloves and then started hitting the punching bags.I watched him from a _____ and wanted to help him to punch straighter and better. Then Ifelt it was best to leave that up to the trainer who was _______ watching him.
After a few seconds of punching the bag, he stopped and started staring at the ______.The trainer went up to him and ______ to help him. It was almost like he woke up from adream. He ______ eye contact with the ceiling at once.
Then the bell rang and it was the end of the round. _____ rounds we are required todo five push-ups(俯卧撑),_________ all the boys that were training that night did fivepush-ups. He _____ to complete his five push-ups. The bell sounded again and the nextround began. He punched the bags for a few seconds and then he _____. This time he wasstaring at the walls which were decorated with boxing posters.
It was clear to me that he could not _______ for long.
When I finished training, I decided to go to him and offer him my help. I held the bag forhim and asked him to punch. He _______ the bag a few times and then stopped again.
I smiled at him and asked, “Do you like boxing?”
He replied with a very shy _________on his face, “Yes, boxing is alright.”
What else could I do than ______ this man and his willingness to give it a go? Mostpeople put self-imposed(自我强加的)_________ on their lives and stop themselves fromhaving a go. I kept thinking about this man while admiring him for even turning up to a boxinggym, let alone training at what appeared to be his ________
There are many lessons to learn from this man. What I ______ admired about this manwas that he had a go! That is what ______ ordinariness from greatness.
So what will you have a go at?
1.A. lifting B. running C. warming D. going
2.A. heart B. attention C. breath D. imagination
3.A. experienced B. mentioned C. overcame D. understood
4.A. distance B. box C. poster D. screen
5.A. still B. even C. also D. ever
6.A. bags B. walls C. ceiling D. trainer
7.A. offered B. promised C. seemed D. planned
8.A. made B. broke C. kept D. avoided
9.A. Before B. Through C. During D. Between
10.A. for B. but C. or D. so
11.A. struggled B. preferred C. refused D. decided
12.A. slowed B. stopped C. continued D. hesitated
13.A. stand B. stay C. concentrate D. remember
14.A. hit B. felt C. grasped D. watched
15.A. view B. look C. sight D. scene
16.A. accept B. appreciate C. motivate D. notice
17.A. targets B. burdens C. limitations D. minds
18.A. worst B. fullest C. greatest D. hardest
19.A. really B. hardly C. merely D. nearly
20.A. prevents B. protects C. transforms D. separates
Choosing the right college for you is not so easy. You should have a general idea of what you want and don’t want. The idea can guide you to what fits your needs best. 1..
Think about what major you want to study in college. If you know that, just look atcolleges that have your major. 2.. So think carefully about your majors and interests before choosing one.
Where the college is located matters. Anyone who tells you the location isn’t important is lying. 3., stay away from schools in cold areas. If you look forward to working in the publishing industry, New York may be your best bet. If your parents want you to stay close to home, please don’t consider anywhere that requires a plane ticket to get to.
Think about how much you can afford. Are your parents paying for your education? If so,how much are they willing to spend? Do you have to contribute anything? Financial aid and scholarships exist, but don’t count on anything. Are you willing to get into debt at school?4., these are all things to consider for you.
Make sure you’re going to spend time with the right people. The cool thing about colleges that each different one attracts different kinds of people. For the first thing in your life, you get to choose where you get to spend your time and who you get to spend it with. 5. .And make sure that the people you’re with for four years are your kind of people.
A. If you don’t like cold weather
B. Before you fall in love with a college
C. College is about learning what you love
D. You’d better choose a major that is popular
E. Go to the college with some people you like
F. Remember, above all, it’s people that make places
G. These guidelines will help you figure out what college you want to go
Robots and humans will soon be living in harmony(和睦).A singing robot is being taught to create jazz with a human in a project.
Antonio Chella from Italy is working with a Telenoid robot. To start with, the Telenoid will be trained to follow the movements and simple sounds made by a human singer, and to connect music with different emotional states. Chella then plans to see if the robot can use these connections to create music.
Intelligence is often regarded as the ability to find connections between the existing things. But Chella suggests that a conscious(有意识的) creature should be able to go a step further and introduce new connections that result in the creation of something new.
Some jazz musicians say that they should have a mental library of musical phrases so that they are able to combine them in new ways. More importantly, however, this combination happens in a state that is similar in a sense to dreaming. Chella wants to copy these states in a machine.
“This work raises interesting questions about the link between consciousness and music making,” says Philippe Pasquier, a musician and computer scientist. But he is skeptical about whether a robot musician needs a physical body.
Pasquier argues that the robots are faced with two challenges(挑战). Software that can copy Bach has already been developed. But interpretation（演绎）includes human’s different tastes and judgments. “What made the Beatles famous was not so much their works, but the fact that the interpretations of the works were wonderful,” he says.
It is not yet clear how a robot would go about interpreting music in a new way. But by copying humans and then learning to sing, Chella’s robot could provide clues.
What seems to be important is that human composers often listen to lots of music made by others. So Chella’s robot had better listen to those jazz standards first.
1.Which of the following is the robot’s first step before it tries to create jazz?
A. Living with human beings in harmony.
B. Connecting actions with human’s emotions.
C. Copying a human singer’s movements and sounds.
D. Learning to communicate with human beings freely.
2.The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 5 could be replaced by .
A. doubtful. B. worried.
C. certain. D. concerned.
3.What can we know about the robots like Telenoid from the text?
A. They are household robots. B. They can talk with researchers.
C. They are faced with two challenges. D. They will become human singers.
4.What can be concluded from the text?
A. Chella’s robot needs a physical body to make music.
B. How to interpret jazz is a piece of cake for Chella’s robot.
C. A new kind of software should be developed to copy Bach.
D. Chella’s robot should listen to much jazz to create something new.
Our mother earth is going through a very tough situation and we, the entire human race,are destroying our environment consciously or unconsciously without even realizing its results.Now we have to act very smartly and plan something to sustain(保持) what we still have,getting all necessary support from nature to lead healthy lives.
Gardening is always an excellent and environmentally friendly idea. If you can go forsustainable(可持续的) gardening, then it will be even more useful for all. Gardening is afavorite hobby for many. It is time to channelize your hobby towards a more meaningfulmotivation.
When we do gardening we need to use different ingredients to grow plants. Some of themare natural resources like water, soil, sunshine, and many things like this. Using these resourcessmartly is a part of sustainable gardening. Some simple techniques include: use less water andorganic things to grow plants; try to store rainwater so that you can use them for gardening; tryusing less energy to drive devices; avoid using plastics in any form while gardening; reuse theleaves from your garden to fertilize them. These are the basic sustainable measures. To do sowe need to have proper knowledge about gardening and its requirements so that we can useproper resources without wasting any of them.
In today’s busy life we don’t get much time to spend on our environment. Gardening givesus a chance to do so. We can also have some pesticide-free and fresh food if we grow them inour garden. This is the right time to do some good to protect our own environment andgardening is one of the easiest ways. Do you want to start gardening, but you’re not sure how?Click here: http://www. gardenhowto. com.
1.What does the underlined word “channelize” in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. Cause. B. Transform.
C. Direct. D. Associate.
2.Which of the following belongs to a sustainable measure?
A. Using advanced electrical machines.
B. Avoiding fertilizers.
C. Watering plants with collected rainwater.
D. Clearing away the leaves.
3.What is the benefit of sustainable gardening?
A. It requires little water. B. It needs no fertilizer.
C. It breaks up plastics. D. It doesn’t waste any resource.
4.Where is the passage probably taken from?
A. A newspaper. B. The Internet.
C. A guidebook. D. A science report.
A five-year-old dog named Kelsey has been praised as a hero for helping to save the life ofher owner who slipped in the snow and broke his neck.
The man, Bob, was alone when he left his Michigan farmhouse on New Year’s Eve tocollect firewood. Expecting a journey of only several meters, Bob was wearing just longjohns(衬裤), a shirt and slippers when he went outside, although the temperature was around-4°C.
After the accident, he was unable to move in the snow. Fortunately, Kelsey came to hisassistance.
“I was shouting for help, but my nearest neighbor is about 400 meters away, and it was10:30 pm,” Bob explained. “But my Kelsey came. By the next morning, my voice was goneand I couldn’t yell for help, but Kelsey didn’t stop barking.”
Kelsey’s companion kept him warm by lying on top of him. She licked his face and handsto keep him awake. “Kelsey kept barking but never left my side,” Bob recalled. “She keptme warm. I knew I couldn’t give up and that it was my choice to stay alive.”
Bob spent 20 hours in the freezing cold. When he finally lost consciousness, his dog keptbarking. Finally, hearing the barking, Bob’s neighbor discovered him at 6:30 pm on NewYear’s Day and called the emergency services at once. When Bob arrived in hospital, his bodytemperature was below 21°C. However, doctors were surprised to find that he didn’t have anyfrostbite(冻疮). They believed it was because of Kelsey’s determination to keep him warm. Dr.Chaim Colen, the doctor who treated Bob, said, “Animals can help and his dog really savedhim... He was very fortunate.
Bob said he was “enormously” grateful to both Dr. Colen and his Kelsey. “They savedmy life. They are truly heroes!”
1.What happened to Bob on New Year’s Eve?
A. He left his dog alone in his farmhouse.
B. He was praised for saving a dog owner.
C. He broke his neck and couldn’t move.
D. He heard his neighbor’s shouting for help.
2.Why did Kelsey keep barking?
A. To keep warm.
B. To stay alive.
C. To keep Bob awake.
D. To seek help from others.
3.How does Dr. Colen feel about Kelsey?
A. Helpful. B. Fortunate.
C. Grateful. D. Friendly.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. A Neck-breaking Accident B. The Magic Night
C. Warmth on a Winter’s Night D. Determination to Keep Alive
About aspirin(阿司匹林)
Aspirin is a commonly used drug which can be taken to relieve discomfort caused by numerous medical problems including headaches, toothache, inflammation and infections. It is also suitable to treat colds and flu-like symptoms, and to reduce a high temperature.
Who can take aspirin?
Adults and children over 16 years of age.
Who should not take aspirin?
﹡Women who are pregnant, or plan to become pregnant. Aspirin may harm your unborn baby.
﹡Women who are breast-feeding. Aspirin can pass into your breast milk and may harm your baby.
﹡People who have any problems with the way the liver works or with the way the kidneys work.
How to take aspirin:
Take aspirin after meals, with a full glass of water or milk.
﹡The recommended dose(剂量) ranges from two to three tablets at a time. Never take more than 4g (12 tablets) in any 24-hour period.
﹡You must not take these tablets with any other medicine which contains any aspirin or painkiller.
How to store aspirin:
﹡Keep all medicines out of the reach and sight of children.
﹡Store aspirin in a cool, dry place, away from direct heat and light.
﹡Do not put aspirin in the bathroom because the dampness there can cause it to lose its effectiveness.
﹡Throw away aspirin that smells strongly of vinegar.
Possible side effects:
﹡Feeling sick, increased risk of bleeding, stomach pain, indigestion and heartburn are common. If these effects continue, contact your doctor.
﹡Ringing in the ears, difficulty breathing, dizziness, and mental confusion are rare. If these occur, stop taking the drug and contact your doctor for further advice.
1.In which case will you take aspirin according to the text?
A. Stomachache. B. Fever.
C. Breathlessness. D. Nosebleed.
2.How many times can you take aspirin at most in a day?
A. 6. B. 4.
C. 5. D. 3.
3.What type of writing is this text?
A. An announcement. B. A medical report.
C. An official guide. D. Medical instructions.
